what age did you introduce bedtime stories?

[curlyLJ]

I was reading the thread about bedtime stories in the 'discussions of the day' today and wondered at what age people generally start reading bedtime stories and it got me thinking...

DD seems to young at the moment (just turning 4 months) as she still feeds until in, or almost in a milk coma and goes straight to sleep...and I'm not sure she'd stay interested yet tbh!

What others do - am I right, or is it time to start introducing them now?

about 4 months with my dd..but she is my pfb

with ds (4 months) unlikely to be anytime soon

any time!

i think when it becomes a useful tool to bdtime routine particualrly (DD now has something to motivate her through getting nightie on - otherwise she'd muck about just when Mummy is already tired and moody and wanting to get some peace herself...)

Somewhere around 4 or 5 months, I think. Even now (6 months) it isn't that important as a sleep cue as it is feeding that gets DS to sleep at night, but it's a nice part of the routine.

I read a shorter story before rocking him to sleep for naps, and I'm pretty sure it helped him get the idea that it was naptime when he started to self-settle a bit.

I like it because it's fun, though. At first, DS would often cry through the story if he were tired, but now even if he's shrieking with overtirednes he'll temporarily stop while you read the story and he chews the pages.

I'm trying to remember.

We've always read books, but a bedtime story as part of the bedtime routine...

I DO remember! 14 months for dd because that's when she stopped bfing to sleep and dh started doing bedtimes with her.

Ds has just always joined in with her story.

DH and I used read to DD whilst I was pg! (PFB alert!) But we started proper bedtime stories when she was about 6mths old and took and interest in holding/turning the pages etc. I did it before her last feed as she also did the milk coma thing!

1 and a half - until now baby been too tired to put up with a book when all he wants is MILK after his bath....

Now the book will distract him from the idea of milk. Quite a development!